That's right: it's time to heat up your winter nights again, with the 14th season of FronteraFest. The Short Fringe, the Long Fringe, or Mi Casa es su Teatro -- FronteraFest is five weeks of alternative, offbeat, new, and just plain off-the-wall fringe theatre presented by Hyde Park Theatre and Austin Script Works.
For complete FronteraFest 2007 information, including times and locations for the Short Fringe, the Long Fringe and Mi Casa es su Teatro, and to purchase tickets, visit the FronteraFest website.
Short Fringe - Tues Jan 30 8:00PM at Hyde Park Theatre, $12
The Short Fringe comprises five shows nightly, each up to 25 minutes
Summer People by Jenny Connell
The story of a summer on the Maine Coast.
Islands Out of Time by Lorene Stillwell
An original work by Lorene Stilwell based on the traditions she grew up with from her early childhood in Scotland. In the play, she portrays characters loosely based on herself, her mother, her grandmother and her grandfather, all living on a small island off the coast of Scotland, and trying to keep the memories of the old ways alive while the outside world is slowly encroaching.
Bemuddled (Lindsay Auten)
Featuring the talents of Logan Lark, Lindsay Auten and Cathy Justice, “Bemuddled” is a farcical hodgepodge of situations and scenarios involving drama, dance, music, screaming, parody, action, philosophy, and more. Meant to illuminate the madness inherent in everyday human existence.
Twenty and Change: Work In Progress by Zack Gonzales
Lara and Deneen are living together now, which may be more than Deneen bargained for. A staged reading of select scenes.
Coldtowne
Long form improv from international-touring, Best of Austin-winning, full-time performers Arthur Simone, Justin York, Tami Nelson, Chris Trew, and Michael Jastroch.
More about tonight's Long Fringe Performances after the jump...
As in past years, ten shows will play at the Blue Theater near 9th and Springdale. But this year, for the first time, ten entirely different shows will play at the brand-new City Theatre at 3823 Airport. At the Long Fringe, you can expect anything from new works by emerging playwrights to cutting-edge choreography.
Blue Note (Company II)
A new jazz-musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello, set to the haunting backdrop of the 1950’s Philadelphia Jazz scene, is being mounted. We witness its actors’ relationships to one another on its opening night. It is a play of transformations of the human mind, and the deception which pours from that altered mind in the name of love. Tickets $5.
At The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D
Elektra by Will Snider (Gobotrick Theatre Company)
What is Right? What is Just? What does a woman do when her Family, her Society, the Gods have already decided her fate? Can she end the cycle of violence and horror that is her family’s birthright? Does she want to? In an imaginative restructuring, Gobotrick Theatre Company, under the direction of Will Snider, examines Elektra’s tale through multiple texts and presents a dance/theatre hybrid with Christine Pasculado’s exciting choreography set to a post-rock soundtrack. Tickets $10.
At The Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale
Icarus: On Ice by Daniel Huntley Solon (Side Project)
A would-be martyr faces the world after he survives his final sacrifice. In Daniel Huntley Solon’s Icarus: On Ice, a wrecked man battles to maintain a clean conciousness among flagrant corruption. Haunted by 9/11, echoes of a distant war, and visions of an unlikely martyr, Mercy attempts to heal himself, licking his wounds, hiding from the brutal sun. Tickets $10.
At The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D
The Small Stars; The Musical; The Workshop (by The Small Stars)
A fantastic hour of comedy, rock-n-roll, improvisation, persuasion, confusion, theatrical devices, lounge singers, mariachis and so much more!!! Tickets $10.
At The Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale
Austinist is an Official media Sponsor of FronteraFest 2007
"Icarus on Ice" photo by Jenny Glowka/Joel Sanchez
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